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IMPBRiaI THE GREAT MEDICINAL. this original and world Renowned Dietetic Preparation is a substance orUNRlVALLED PURITY and Medicinal Worth, A Solid extract derives by a New process from very Superior Growths of Wheat—Nothing More, it Has Justly Acouireo THE REPUTATIOH OF BEING THE SALVATOR FOR AND THE AGED. AN INCOMPARABLE ALIMENT POR THE GROWTH AND PROTECTION OP INFANTS AND OH IL/DRE&N A superior Nutritive in Continued Fevers and a Reliable Remedial agent « ALL DISEASES OF THE STOMACH AND INTESTINES. SOUD BY DRUGGISTS. ■HlPPUia DEPOT—UOHN carleasons.-new<vork. CROFT & CHAFEE, HISTORY OF Attorneys-at-Law, Aiken, S. C. D. S. Hendkkson. E. P. Henderson. Henderson Brothers, Attorneys at Law, Aiken, S. C Will practice in the State and United States Courts for South Caro lina. Prompt attention given to col lections. John Gary Evans, Attorney-at-Law. Will practice in the Counties of Aiken, Edgefield and Barnwell. 0. C. JORDAN, ATTORN EY-AT-I.AW. AIKEN, S. C. Andrew T. Woodward, Attornky-at-Law, Barnwell Court House, S. 0. Will practice iu the Courts of Aiken and Barnwell Counties. Walter Ashley, Attorney at Law, Aiken, S.C. (Successor to Aldrich & Ashley.) Practices in all the Courts. Special -- ■ -- - A Town That Was Man and Was Kill prising Citizens.' From 'I he Atlanfli •‘The dead towns been the subject of a interest and unusual far as is known “the South Carolina” have ed upon. -t Mr. William C. Si the Sibley mills qf A< citizen that the Electri as one of its most lauta Thursday night, remiiiisctnt strain, facts about the h the desolate citv from one hundred fifty lazy vagrant 1 the river from A He knew it when Jfew of commerce for four hundreds upon handredl each day, from upper an Carolina, North Cacoli nessee, would roil into i ed down with articles of Along iu the early tliirf had au old German cit name of Schultz. The that time a trading cen dreds of miles of the country. Schultz was wealthiest citizens. He owned three brick buildi north side of Broad Street the monument, which a until this day. They were known as tl Bank Buildings, because, biy, there was a bau which was run by old and McKinney. Schultz al the bridge that spanned the 8 and connected Georgia an Carolina. The bank failed, and as it h money to Augusta, through s< suit the city managed to get sion of the bridge. This angered Schultz, and of pique he vowed that he wt u Augusta’s trade and build up burg. He went before the Soul olina Legislature, and ont of his representatioi of establishing Hamburg, Gen 000. This was in ^ night where, ing wil lUItC. by a Piqued Its Unenter- >urual. rgla M have ork of great erlt. but as ad towns of ; been touch ft president of ta, and a City prizes was In At e was in a Id me some Hamburg, pulated by undred aud ust across the centre ates, when of wagons ower South aud Teu- treet^ lead- in merce. s Augusta on by the ty was at for bun- r rounding ne of its reeled aud gs on the just below standing Bridge resuma- there •Schultz owned annah South owed e law osses- river because coming down the canal took away the great danger of shoot ing the rapids. Hamburg gradually grew from bad t<> worse, and finally about the time of the war its sole population was composed of negroes. “Now it is nothing but almost a howling wilderness. Where once the busy merchant sold his wares, a lazy negro skulks; where the residences that beautiful Southern women graced once stood, now negro ramshackles, with dirty pickaninnies playing on the porch, are to be seen. The well kept streets are a mass oi weeds, and Schultz’s beautiful park, under whose trees many a beautiful tale of love has been told, is now the resort of ne gro picnickers. The town has been through riots aud fires, and uo house that burns up or is blown down has ever been re placed. Hamburg is surely au evidence of what narrow minded illiberal citizens can do. It now serves but one pur pose—it is the battle-ground for game cocks and bull dogs. A Heducing the Acreage in Cotton—A Novel Scheme. From the News and Courier. To the Editor of The News aud Courier: Iu your issue for to-day you say that the agitation by the Farmers’ Alliance to unite cotton-growers on a scheme for reducing the amount of cotton produced “is foredoomed to failure.” You may be right. If so, it is greatly to be regreted. Cotton- growers as a class are not prosperous. A single fact, the’ low price of cotton lauds, is ample proof of this. They are not prosperous because the busi ness is overdone. The eight mil lion bale crops bring actually less money than the four-million bale crops did, although the cost of each item of production is almost substan tially the same. The oldest farmers who have taken deepest root in the cotton fields bare ly hold their own. Annually hosts of new farmers, farmers of a single sea son, farmers without experience or sufficient financial equipment, raid the cotton lands. The wreck of their sleuder means is gathered in at har vest time by their factors, and natur ally in their own ruin they are obli vious to the injury their misdirected competition has inflicted on oth and the publi shows that Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov’t Report. Baking Powder ABson/mar pure DEVASTATION BY FL.OOD, A Tour in the Indian Territory—In undated by a Cloud-Burst. Arkansas City, Kan., June 14.— A gentleman who has just arrived here from Greer County, in the ex treme southwest part of the Indian Territory, reports that the Red river and its noith fork have been out of their banks for over a week, com pletely hemming the people in and cutting off all communication with the outside world. The rainfall there has been simply terrible, and the people are surffering everywhere. Over half the wheat crop has been en tirely ruined and corn and oats are nearly killed. A cloud-burst inuudated the little town of Fraser, ruiniug every mer chant’s stock of goods and compelling the people to flee for their lives. Two persons were drowned in the town and three iu the country. Along Turkey creek and Salt fork a dozen or more houses were washed away. A Mr. Phillips and daughter-in-law floated a mile on a portion of their house, and were finally washed ashore. Mrs. Phillips and her little daughter grasped the limbs of a tree aud hung there until morning, when they were rescued with a raft, the water being twenty feet deep under the tree. The foundations of many houses being washed away wrecked them and the dugouts everywhere caved in; hundreds of people are living out of doors on high land, praying for the floods to recede. The damage done in that county alone will exceed $500,000. The Penalty of Overwork. Savannah News. The farmer who. poses upon them. Though they are to be pitied rather than envied, those who fill the ranks of what are called the toiling masses cannot he made to think so. Outlook for a Bi^ Crop. The New York Commercial and Financial Chronicle says: “We demonstrated last June, and have made even a fuller demonstratiou in our acreage reviews of several pre vious occasions, that the Southern States had not secured a full yield on the land planted any season since 1882. It will be remembered that in 1882 the crop raised was 6,992,234 bales, from 16,590,000 acres planted, or about 194 pounds to the acre. In the summer of 1887, 1888 and 1889 the pro duct in number of bales marketed was* about the same each year as iu 1882, that is about 7,000,090 bales, although the acreage had at the close of that period of seven years increased over 20 per cent. We da not wonder that some who never follow the weather conditions closely were inclined (in view of this stationary character of the crop measured in bales) to lose faith iu acreage results. But tiiose who have taken the trouble to study carefully the reports each Jnne have known why it was that a full crop was uot reached, and have known also that if one should be reached how very much larger the yield would prove to be than it had been any year of our record. “It is so important as a basis for future crop estimates that this fact should be clearly disclosed and recog nized, that it is not needful to present the data respecting the years since 1882 in detail. And first it is desirablj to state more.